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Originally Posted by ChrisCook
I agree that more and more teams are being dominated by mentors, Im from the San jose Area and in the radius of 10 miles we have Team 254, team 115, team 114, team 8, team 1072, 581... its just crazy. Team 254 does have a really good program, but every time I go to look at their web site i always see the same guy in the green vest working on the robot.
Also lest look at it from a students perspective, who has become a mentor. They never really graduated they're just going another year of FIRST. So I think that there are two sides to the situation.
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I am a freshman on team 1257. This was my first year in robotics and it was quit the expirence. What made me most proud of my team is we had virtually 0 mentor influence. Other then a little advice by a team mates father (who is an engineer) on the design we did EVERYTHING ourselves. In our work area there were usually one adult (a teacher due to legal reasons) and maybe a mentor who usually just did scrap work like cut metal or something. We find much pride in the fact that engineering wise we have only two seniors, are thrid in command is a sophmore, and we only have on junior. If you were in hte Eurie division u may remmber ares it had the arm with the two neumatic hooks. Next year should be intresting since we are going to have no seniors, and the rest is juniors through freshman.